Challenges of ASG: II. Legitimacy (slide 1 of 3)

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Challenges of ASG II. Legitimacy (slide 1 of
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• A Basic Attribute of Good Government (RCAP
  identified three such attributes legitimacy,
  power, resources)
• Definition the public confidence in, and
  support for, the govt, on the basis of its
  congruence (in design and performance) with the
  values held by the people
• Relationship Between Legitimacy, Trust, and Sense
  of Political Efficacy
• - Mutually reinforcing
• - When legitimacy is lost, alienation sets
  in and voluntary compliance may be withdrawn.

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Legitimacy (contd slide 2 of 3)

• Seeing self reflected in symbolic output of the
  aboriginal state Very important. In the absence
  of that, legitimacy is withdrawn alienation
  rises.
• Delivering the Goods The onus will be on ab.
  govts to deliver the goods, symbolically and
  materially, to their constituents.
• Life must be better than it had been under
  DIAND, or legitimacy will be withdrawn.
• \ importance of re-distributive function of ab.
  govt.

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Legitimacy (slide 3 of 3)

• Legitimacy With External Actors - e.g., H of C
  investors lobby grps - Very important -
  Fiscal mismanagement undermines legitimacy
  internally and externally.
• Types (Loci) of Legitimacy Crisis
• - Incumbents - Policies - Regime -
  Political Community
• Other Threats to Legitimacy - Unrealistically
  high expectations - Tension betw tradition
  modernity
• - Co-optation by the larger state
• - Other govts downloading responsibs
  without providing commensurate resources
  (incl. socio-fiscal control)